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Letters Patent No. 67,272, dated July 30, 1867.

IMPROVED MODE l0F APPLYING WINDOW-SHADES T0 WINDOWS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

B6 it known that we, H. J. COX and WALLACE HILL, of Long Eddy, in the county of Sullivan, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Mode of Applying Window-Shades to Windows; and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a-full and exactspecitication of the same, wherein we have set forth thev nature and principles of our said improvements, by which our invention may bedistnguished from all'others ofI a similar class, together with-such parts as we claim, and desire to have secured to us by Letters Patent.

This invention relates to a new and improved mode of applying window-shades to windows, whereby the former are rendered capable of being rolled up either from the top or bottom, vas required, and also rendered capable of adjustment laterally, and of being very readily applied to and detached from the window. In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 is a front or face view of a window having a shade applied to it according to our invention.

Figure 2, a transverse vertical section of the same, taken in the line x x, iig. I.

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A represents a window-frame, to the top of which a horizontal cleat or strip, B, is attached, having a dovetail groove, a, made in it, extending its whole length, to receive a dovetail rib, b, at the rea-r side of a bar, C, which admits of said bar being readily applied to and detached from the window-frame, as the rib b may be readilyinserted in and withdrawn from the groove a. The bar C has two upri'ghts c c attached to it, between which two pulleys d d are fitted on the same axis e, the pulleys being secured or keyedon the axis, and one end of the latter being connected to the inner end of a coil-spring, D, theouter end of which is attached to the bar C. The pulleys d CZ have cords ff attached to them, one to each, and these cords wind around the pulleys in opposite directions, as shown in g. I, and pass over pulleys g g in the ends of the bar C, and are attached to bars h h, in which the pivots z'z'of a roller, E, are fitted, to which the shade F is attached. 'Ihe spring D keeps the roller E in au elevated state, or at the top ofthe fra-me A, and the shadeh` may be wound upon it and raised from the bottom of the frame by pulling a. cord,iG, which .is wound around one end of the rollerE, the shade being retained at anyrdesired point by winding the cord around a. knob or button, lc', in one side of the windowframe.

In order to wind up lthe shade at the top, and consequently lower it at the top of the window,A a ring,y', at the centre of the bar in the bottom of the shade is fitted upon a. tack or button, k, in the sill of the windowframe, and tllcnby pulling the cord G the shade will be wound upon the roller and lowered at the top, thc roller being retained at any point by winding the cord around the kn'ob or button k, the spring bringing the roller up uhen the cord is released. The,shade may also, by moving' the bar C, be adjusted laterally when desired, as indicated iu red in fig. 1. i

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The spring D, -pulleys d d, and cords ff, connected with the shade-roller E, in combination with the cord G and the ringj and tack or hook It or their equivalents, for holding or securing the bottom of the'sh'adc, when necessary, all arranged substantially as and for the purpose eet forth.

` H. J. COX,

WALLACE HILL.

Witnesses:

vA. VAN BENscHoTEN,

F. G. BARNES. 

